Textboard script (18)

1 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/13 17:45

do anyone know a good textboard script, ive seen kareha (what world2ch seems to be using), but i seen it hasnt been updated since 2015 and i kinda fear security breaches, so i was wondering if anyone knew about some more up to date alternative

2 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/13 19:53

I don't think there are any others. the textboard community is very small.
Most other foreign textboard that do not use kareha use a script built from scratch.

3 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/13 20:37

>2
so kareha is the best choice that dont involve the writing of a script from scratch ?

4 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/13 22:57

Kareha has never been safe but it's the most modern english textboard script there is.

5 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/14 10:17

>>2
Yep

6 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/14 10:19

>>3*

7 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/14 20:46

>>4
>>5
ok thx for the infos \O_0/

8 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/16 14:34

>>7
I'd just use Vichan in textboard mode.

9 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/16 15:24

>>8
But vichan is terrible and for losers

10 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/19 07:32

I'm curious what you guys think of https://github.com/zerobbs-dev/zerobbs-v0

11 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/19 20:56

>>10
Never heard of Roff

12 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/20 06:09

>>10
Has this been deployed anywhere public?

13 Name: Nameless : 2026/02/22 16:28

>>12
I used it to run a leftypol-themed textboard called leftybbs for a month, which got maybe a couple dozen posts. Compiling it yourself and typing "make install-all" to test it under /var/www/zbbs would be trivial.

The main idea is boards and threads only have a filesystem representation. Moderation is done by an account in the zbbs group creating files in a thread directory to sage, pin, lock or "zap" (slide and unlink) them respectively. Post moderation is only possible by editing the thread HTML. You could write further moderation tools and patch it into a full-fledged imageboard with moderate effort, but personally i don't think that would be particularly elegant or worth the while. I'm still considering options for a successor design without locking and with a more accessible filesystem representation, running a set of pluggable templating modules in the style of a build system (second system syndrome much?).

14 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/10 12:12

Denpa-chan uses emanon BBS, it looks quite similar to kareha.

15 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/06 18:41

>>13
Oh, now that you've mentioned it, I remember leftybbs. I almost thought I was the only person on earth who still knew about this.

16 Name: Nameless : 2026/07/07 18:45

https://github.com/alyssa-p-hacker/SchemeBBS
I have no idea about the specifics but I liked to post on this boar, rip

While looking this up I learned that someone was rewriting it in common lisp. It's the same guy apparently. First time I hear of it
https://github.com/ryukinix/cl-bbs

17 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/10 21:41

This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but the anons of heyuri made KuzuhaScript PHP + for their Strange World/Ayashii Warudo board

https://github.com/Heyuri/ksphp-plus/

18 Name: Nameless : 2026/08/11 01:20

I'm not sure if it's been updated recently, but there are a few textboard scripts on the overscript

https://overscript.net/
https://github.com/tanami/overscript

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